Repress! BROOKLYN ATTRACTORS “The Move” LP vinyl (random color) / CD & Tape too!

VINYL finally back in stock on random color vinyl! JUMP UP is proud to release the follow-up studio album from one of today’s best ska-jazz-reggae acts – the BROOKLYN ATTRACTORS. Anyone familiar with the American Reggae and Ska scene has already heard the work of the musicians in the BROOKLYN ATTRACTORS. The group’s core line-up consists of New York City Reggae and Ska veterans, Jamaican percussion legend LARRY McDONALD (Carlos Malcolm, Toots & The Maytals, Count Ossie), guitarist ANDY BASFORD (Monty Alexander, Lee Perry, Gil Scot Heron), EDDIE OCAMPO, BIG DAN JESSELSOHN, BUFORD O’SULLIVAN, GIDDEON BLUMEBTHAL, MATT KURSMARK, MIKE SARASON,  as well as Anant Pradhan and Luke Penella, two emerging musicians on the NY Jazz scene. The group was created by Westbound Train trumpeter and Void Union co-founder RICH GRAIKO in 2011 as a way to pay homage to 1960’s era Jamaican and American instrumental music. Continue reading Repress! BROOKLYN ATTRACTORS “The Move” LP vinyl (random color) / CD & Tape too!

MEPHISKAPHELES “Maximum Perversion” LP – repressed on RED vinyl + their latest Mini-LP

The year was 1997. Rabid fans worldwide had played “God Bless Satan” to death for 3 long years. Everyone wondered what they were in for with “Maximum Perversion” – and nobody expected what the band was about to unleash! If you were still a kid when it came out, you probably felt musically thrown from a moving car…wondering what had just happened! Simply put, this album was light years ahead of it’s time. The band’s extravagant rhythms heralded a new shift into experimental territories. From the funky breaks and avant-garde solos of “Break Your Ankle Punk” to the occasional forays into metal and hardcore territory and even more genre fusions, the band was taking chances left and right expending more energy on unusual arrangements and broadening its “ska” sound. The brass players continued to sound top-notch, while the manic rhythms propelled the album along with a demonic gusto. Twenty years later, we figured that you’d finally understand the avant-ska of “Maximum Perversion”…thus we have reissued it on vinyl to bring this masterpiece to a whole new generation of fans. God bless Mephiskapheles!

Did you miss MEPHISKAPHELES’ latest mini-LP released a couple years ago? No fear we’ve got some copies in stock NOW. Six tracks of classic demon-ska: 1 Satan Stole My Weed 2 Hell on Earth 3 Let Them Come 4 Snakes In The Garden 5 Friends Like You 6 Any Fool.  And that’s not all! If you didn’t get the bonus “demos” 7″ single years ago when we released “God Bless Satan” – here’s your chance to get it as we have a small stash set aside!

 

DAVE HILLYARD & ROCKSTEADY 7 “Friends And Enemies” LP (JUMP110LP – OUT OF PRINT)

If you aren’t familiar with Dave’s saxophone playing history, maybe you’ve been living under a rock for the past couple of decades? He has been a gigging/touring musician since his teenage years, playing with HEPCAT, RANCID, STUBBORN ALL-STARS, Willie Williams, Stranger Cole, Glen Brown, Glen Adams, Archie Bell, and for the last 18 years, he has been the featured soloist with NYC’s legendary Ska band, THE SLACKERS. ROCKSTEADY 7, a fourteen year old all-star collective, is the band where Dave is able to showcase his unique style of Saxophone playing with extended Jazz improvisations over Reggae-Ska rhythms. As Dave explains, “I’m a freak stylistically. I’m a southern Californian raised kid who started out playing like Jamaican saxophonists, Roland Alphonso and Tommy McCook. Then I moved to New York and got into classic American saxophone like Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Lester Young, and Illinois Jacquet. Then I went on the road and started to understand the blues. I got into Howling Wolf, Tbone Walker, and Sonny Boy Williamson.” Continue reading DAVE HILLYARD & ROCKSTEADY 7 “Friends And Enemies” LP (JUMP110LP – OUT OF PRINT)

THE SLACKERS and JUMP UP reissue classic albums on CASSETTE tape!

We  are so proud to announce THE SLACKERS and JUMP UP have teamed up to release classic albums on cassette for the first time ever! The whole idea came about when THE SLACKERS announced three album themed shows at Los Angeles’ Troubadour and they wanted to do something special for the gigs. Since JUMP UP has lead the way in the ska/reggae world releasing 9 cassettes in the past year and participating in two Cassette Store Days, naturally we jumped at the chance to get these classics on magnetic tape for the very first time. Hell, if Green Day can release a 13 album cassette box set that comes with a boombox….we can make cassettes for one of the greatest modern ska bands of all time! Pick up a vintage boombox on eBay, or hook up that tape deck into your system – it’s all about analog goodness and embracing what’s great about collectible physical media. All tapes are limited to 100 copies each!

THE SLACKERS “CLOSE YOUR EYES”  /   THE SLACKERS “PECULIAR”  /    THE SLACKERS “THE QUESTION”
THE SLACKERS “RED LIGHT” (includes 3 bonus tracks, only appearance on physical media!)
THE SLACKERS “WASTED DAYS” (with bonus tracks)    /   THE SLACKERS “BETTER LATE THAN NEVER”

Brand new or CASSETTE STORE DAY 2019:

Slackers, The/THE RADIO LIVE ON WSKI TAPE SPTAPE006
New York ska / reggae legends’ 2012 covers album on tape for the first time. Eleven tracks, some famous, some obscure, all beautiful and perfect. It’s like a radio station where all the songs were The Slackers. Songs from The Misfits, Madonna, The Sonics, Elton John, Rolling Stones and more. Comes with a bonus retro WSLK-FM bumper sticker. (JUMP UP / SPECIAL POTATO)

Slackers, The/ONLY THE BEST FOR OUR FRIEND VOL 1 TAPE SPTAPE007
Fan voted mixtape of hits! 60 minutes of ska & reggae classics sourced from the band’s 28 years in existence. Hand written songs and art in true mixtape style. (JUMP UP / SPECIAL POTATO)

While you’re picking these up, you should get VIC RUGGIERO and JESSE WAGNER’s REGGAE WORKERS OF THE WORLD tape! We have a limited handful remaining, and this album is SO GOOD!!

After making your purchase send list of tapes you choose to jumpuprecords@gmail.com

Magnetic Magic!